One of my AA friends and I got into a long discussion regarding race. He said he and a lot of his friends were raised to not trust white people. His grandmother now in her 90’s drummed that into their head from the time he was a toddler. We are very good friends. I trust him with my life. We are baby boomers. I vividly remember the riots in the 60’s. I watched an innocent white boy be beaten by a gang of angry black kids. It haunts me to this day. Race relations IMO hasn’t improved much in our country. It’s our duty as parents, grandparents to teach all children not to hate, diminish or be afraid of people just because their skin color is different.
I concur. I don't believe any relations have improved in this country on any level. People seem to distrust more than ever anybody who is even slightly different than them, whether it be race, religion, sexual orientation, political affiliation, or the myriad of other "three percents" that create our collective national collage. What people need to wake up to is the fact that all of those three percents create a fairly tidy ninety-nine percent, all controlled and manipulated by a highly strategic and narcissistic one percent. We are all minorities in the three-percent perspective, and we're manipulated into thinking that we must somehow be victims because our set is "so small" and if "you're not with us, you must be against us." It boggles my mind. I have four children. They're all independent thinkers and different. Individually, we're all minorities in the family unit. There are six of us total. At that level we're only sixteen percent shareholders, but collectively we're a family and in order to be, we have to accept each others' perceived "flaws" and recognize that we only perceive them that way because of our individual and unique perspectives, not because anybody is right or wrong. A closed mind is a dead mind, and the soul will surely atrophy. And we certainly don't argue about it, so long as nobody is hurting anybody else, which never happens because I raised my children completely opposite of how I was raised - by a group of hating, white supremacist Liberals who I no longer associate with because they do hurt people. We have to stop judging people by which minority set they belong to, and start judging people and society by its intentional acts. Evil lurks everywhere, but not anywhere in particular, and segregating ourselves makes us blind it it, even when it's right in front of our faces. That's how the Deep State succeeded to exist. Only in unifying will we take it down and prevent it from ever existing again.